CHECK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does check in mean? 

• CHECK IN (verb)
  The verb CHECK IN has 1 sense:

1. announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports

  Familiarity information: CHECK IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHECK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

check in; sign in

Hypernyms (to "check in" is one way to...):

report (announce one's presence)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

check out (announce one's departure from a hotel)

Derivation:

check-in (the act of reporting your presence (as at an airport or a hotel))

 Context examples 

A prouder young woman was seldom seen than she, when, having composed herself, she electrified the family by appearing before them with the letter in one hand, the check in the other, announcing that she had won the prize.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Perhaps Professor Summerlee may have an observation to make, he said, and the two savants ascended together into some rarefied scientific atmosphere, where the possibilities of a modification of the birth-rate were weighed against the decline of the food supply as a check in the struggle for existence.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)